Fuegian

• “The shore-dwelling Fuegian savages used a lexicon of more than 32,000 words that was a "labyrinth of the particular," Chatwin says, including names "as complex and precise as Linnaean Latin of everything that swam or sprouted, crawled or flew.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Fury and Terror On the High Seas

• “Birds include the Adean condor (Vultur gryphus), Rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis), Fuegian Snipe (Gallinago stricklandii), and frailejón (Libanothamnus glossophyllus).”

  Santa Marta páramo

• “Fuegian arrowgrass Tetroncium magellanicium and mossy deergrass Scirpus spp. are the only abundant vascular plants found in bogs, although bog margins show a wider diversity, including various grasses.”

  Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom

• “Nature by making habit omnipotent, and its effects hereditary, has fitted the Fuegian to the climate and the productions of his miserable country.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “The Fuegian wigwam resembles, in size and dimensions, a haycock.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “The Australian, in the simplicity of the arts of life, comes nearest the Fuegian: he can, however, boast of his boomerang, his spear and throwing-stick, his method of climbing trees, of tracking animals, and of hunting.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “In the case of this Fuegian, the possibility of such a sound as the report of a gun close to his ear could never have entered his mind.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “The Fuegian boy, whom Mr. Low had on board, showed, by going into the most violent passion, that he quite understood the reproach of being called a liar, which in truth he was.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “The cove takes its name of "Wigwam" from some of the Fuegian habitations; but every bay in the neighbourhood might be so called with equal propriety.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “We kept close to the Fuegian shore, but the outline of the rugged, inhospitable”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

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